My first was Anne RiceāsĀ āVampire Chroniclesā...reading them made me fall in love with Louis/Lestat, Louis/Armand, Marius/Armand, Daniel/Armand, Lestat/Armand, Marius/Lestat, Maharet/Jesse, Khayman/Armand, Gabrielle in all of her androgynous, and just all of the out of the box gender possibilities that series suggested. Years later, I read Storm ConstantineāsĀ āWraethruā andĀ āMagravandiasā books, which made me fall in love with the characters and the ideas they invoked in my mind for fantasy and science fiction. Years passed, until I found and fell in love with Sarah MonetteāsĀ Felix Harrowgate books, which were rich in character development, world building, and had a marvelously complex main character who was half hero, half villain, and as larger than life than many of the greatest figures in our own history have been. I canāt not mention Elizabeth Bearās Promethean Books, which are rich in m/m, f/f, have a trans heroine learning witchcraft, and are among the best books Iāve read in my life. I particularly love the books about Kit Marlow and his diverse harem, which includes Morgaine le Fey, her son (not Mordred, the one with Lancelot), Will Shakespeare, and the very devil himself. :)